About the centre

Our vision for Wolves Lane is a thriving centre for growing and distributing wholesome food and a space for the local food economy to develop through education, enterprise and events, making good food accessible to all and building a healthier, more sustainable food culture in the area.

What’s going on?

2019 Festive Community Market

If you’re interested in having a stall or volunteering, please contact us: traders@ubele.org

Open Sundays at Wolves Lane

We are open to the public every Sunday between 12 – 4pm for your chance to meet the site users and see the latest developments by visiting our Palm House and Gardens. Our volunteers open the site to the community, give you the opportunity to purchase organic food, plants grown on site and enjoy homemade refreshments in exchange for a donation to support this community site.

SHARE & DONATE – If you have any donations of seeds, flowering bulbs, cuttings and any gardening or DIY tools to contribute, please put them in our donations bucket on the Open Days. It will be a great help to the community site!

Regular Volunteering Opportunities

On a weekly basis the centre is generally closed to the public Monday to Saturday until we secure funds to staff the site. In the mean time, we have a team of volunteers helping to grow, fix, develop and run the site.

Food and horticulture volunteering opportunities at Wolves Lane provide you with the chance to spend time with nature, have fun, get active, share your knowledge and meet new people.

Lunch is provided by CropDrop for all volunteers on Tuesday & Wednesday. We kindly ask that you bring metal or glass food containers for any surplus food that’s not gobbled up on the day!

TUESDAYS / 11am – 4pm

Palmhouse maintenance group

Are you green fingered and want to get more involved in horticulture? Join our Palmhouse restoration team every Tuesday to help care for the tropical plants.

DIY Workshop

Are you great at fixing things? Help improve, repair and work on structural projects on the large 3 acre glasshouse site. We welcome all skill levels and value any expertise you can offer.

Please contact Roger on wolveslaneworkshop@gmail.com for more information.

Help sort the deliveries of fresh produce from the farmers and pack the veg bags. No previous experience is necessary. It helps if you like vegetables, music from the 80s/90s and can lift 10kg bags of carrots. Take home some lovely organic fruit & veg at the end of the shift!

Contact veg@cropdrop.co.uk, if interested.

TIME CREDIT SCHEME

Haringey TimeCredits is a Time Based Currency designed to value the time of people supporting their local community.

Sign yourself up to the time credit reward scheme at Wolves Lane! Simply fill in the form online here(not all information is needed) and notify the volunteer supervisor in charge of your group, when you arrive and leave the site on the volunteering days.

News

Wolves Lane Consortium is undertaking a consultation process to inform the development of its’ 3 acre site. The link below provides access to some very early stage thoughts; an invitation to our consultation evening on Tuesday 24th September and a short questionnaire. We hope you will be able to join us next week to meet …

This lovely case study was published by Power to Change on Friday after we hosted their Summer party. Many thanks to Aisha for following up on the original request and Anne for liaising with Power to Change to develop the case study.

In July this year the Wolves Lane Centre community celebrated the installation of solar panels. On 20th July this summer, site users and volunteers at Wolves Lane held a celebration of their newly installed solar panels. This was the culmination of a huge effort to raise the funds and install the panels to make the …

Who we are

Wolves Lane Centre was a council-run site that combined plant nursery operations and garden centre with community and schools education and volunteering. Haringey Council have been running the site since 2009, but Government cuts to their budgets led to a reduction in funding. As a result it was agreed that a third party would be best placed to utilise the site and maintain it as a community asset.

So we formed a coalition with a shared vision to transform Wolves Lane into a community food hub and to preserve the extensive rare urban glasshouse infrastructure.

The coalition consists of:

London Grown, a community food growers co-operative, complementing their field-scale growing at Pasteur Gardens with glasshouse use at Wolves Lane. They work with volunteers and school groups to increase social inclusion and engagement through food growing.

Crop Drop, Haringey-based veg box scheme, are supporting local sustainable food chains through providing a market for small-scale organic growers. They will be providing an outlet for produce grown on site.

OrganicLea offering support from experience of running a community enterprise in food growing and training at Hawkwood Nursery.

Ubele are creating innovative solutions for some of our most pressing social, economic and political concerns through social leadership development, community enterprise and social action, incubating projects across the UK.

Shared Assets, a ‘think and do tank’ which is researching and promoting good models of public land management.

Dee Woods is a community actionist, urban grower, edible educator and advocates for healthy food for all. Dee runs Granville Community Kitchen in South Kilburn and teaches good food skills, including cooking and eating well on a budget. She is a previous BBC Food and Farming Awards winner, and is currently on the steering group of A People’s Food Policy, a Visiting Researcher at CAWR, Coventry University and sits on the GLA London Food Board.

As well as the members of the consortium, the centre is hosting an expandingnumber of groups, projects and activities, which include: